In case anyone hasn't noticed, I haven't spent a whole lot of time on the board. Or in the CVS tree for that matter.
I've been working late most days, and I've been spending the rest with my fiancée.

I was counting on the days where she works in the evening and on weekends to do FreeOrion stuff (I originally said that I was available "once or twice a week") but there haven't been many of those lately; the times where it's happened, I've been pretty wasted from work, and I didn't feel like doing anything at all..

Anyway, in the near future, I hope to get back on track.
I've installed Mandrake Linux and checked out the code. Now I just need all those darned other packages like boost and SDL.

Thanks for the help. apt-get is only for Debian, is it not?
Mandrake has urpmi, which is apparently very good, too. It will install dependencies (if they're there, I guess) before installing the rpm.

I was using
# rpm --help
and
# rpm --usage

Useless.

If I do that, will it install in the same place as the makefile wants it to?
Say it installs in /usr/rpms or something...
That would mean changing the makefiles every time I do a checkout or update, wouldn't it?

I didn't have the time to hack around with Gentoo. I learned lots while I was doing it, but I just don't have time right now.